Philosophizing without Philosophy?: On the Concept of Philosophy in Ibn Ṭufayl's «Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān»

This article focuses on the notion of philosophy in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān. In the prologue to his work, Ibn Ṭufayl (d. 1185) promises to reveal the «secrets» of Avicenna’s Eastern Philosophy — a book already lost at that time and only referred to by Avicenna in his Book of the Healing. Since...

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Main Author: Germann, Nadja (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters 2008
In: Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales
Year: 2008, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-301
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